Organizing social connections

I decided it was a good time to rein in on the many social connections I have and that we’ve set up for the Other Side Group. I started out by going through the list and drawing it out…. it’s a little messy, but it got the job done.

I wrote down every outpost (and threw in blogs there) and drew arrows to determine where the connections were. From there, I was able to get a better picture of where all the content was going and coming from.

A few things I was able to do:

Clean up (I don’t use Jaiku or Tumblr, so I deleted the accounts)

Find overlaps (For instance, I have Twitter fed into Friendfeed, but I also had Twitter fed into BrightKite, which fed into Friendfeed, so it was posting twice)

Nice post, Kate. I've considered doing something like this as well, but it's all so messy. You may have motivated me to get started…I have a feeling I'll be spending some quality time with my white board.

http://makeitrank.com/ Kevin Spence

Nice post, Kate. I've considered doing something like this as well, but it's all so messy. You may have motivated me to get started…I have a feeling I'll be spending some quality time with my white board.